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2018 Reads
- Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
- The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller
- The Simple Path to Wealth by J.L. Collins
- Principles by Ray Dalio
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson ★
- The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen ★★
- The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy ★
- Bluets by Maggie Nelson
- Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin ★
- Oranges by John McPhee
- Striking Thoughts by Bruce Lee
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
- The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker ★
- Beauty by John O’Donohue
- Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker ★
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The World Beyond Your Head by Matthew Crawford
- Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright ★
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield ★
- Run Studio Run by Eli Altman
- Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams
- Consider the Oyster by MFK Fisher ★
- Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
- Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
- Out of Your Mind by Alan Watts ★
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews by Calvin Tomkins
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck ★
- SPQR by Mary Beard ★
- Walking by Henry David Thoreau
- The One Thing by Gary Keller
- The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera ★
- Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
- Confabulations by John Berger
- The Power Broker by Robert Caro ★★
- The Will to Change by bell hooks
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
- Letters to a Young Painter by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese by Byung-Chul Han ★
- Art and Fear by David Bayles & Ted Orland ★★
- The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal ★
- Just Kids by Patti Smith ★
- Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Crime and Punishment by Fydor Doystoevsky ★★
- Augustus by John Williams ★★
- Selected Stories by Anton Chekov ★★
- The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy ★★
- Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky ★★
- At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell